It's hard to believe that it's been nearly 25 years since I first laid eyes on the jet black cover of Ultima VII: The Black Gate, but perhaps the odd cover somehow helped to cement the RPG's significant place in video game history. Or maybe not, and it would have been even more successful had it sported the cover that was originally intended by artist Denis Loubet. We'll never know, but it's certainly cool to check out the cover that was proposed rather than the one that Origin ended up shipping the game with.
Ultima is a name you may have heard of, but you're probably not too familiar with the tragic backstory to one of gaming's oldest franchises.
ultima 7 was my childhood. i loved the voices, it was so ahead of its time in terms of paving a way for open world
i loved 8 for messing around. it was dark, buggy and the police guy blowing u up for brealing the law was hilarious
fuck ea
If you want an immersive world to dive into while you wait for Torment, why not try one of these story-driven epics?
I really want Torment.. but the price point is just too much for me to go into it at launch. Gotta wait for a good sale for it.
It’s been a fair while, but today Paul Izod is returning to his retrospective of the illustrious Ultima series of games. Last time out he looked at the first-person spin-off title to the series; Ultima Underworld and how it deviated from the main story-arc. However, today he's going to look at what is probably the most prominent of the main canon games; Ultima VII: The Black Gate.
